AOL urges shareholder approval of its board nominees

(Reuters) - AOL Inc, waging a proxy fight with activist hedge fund Starboard Value, said on Saturday its shareholders should approve all eight nominees for its board of directors after an advisory service recommended the approval of only six.

(Reuters) - AOL Inc, waging a proxy fight with activist hedge fund Starboard Value, said on Saturday its shareholders should approve all eight nominees for its board of directors after an advisory service recommended the approval of only six.

AOL Inc, waging a proxy fight with activist hedge fund Starboard Value, said on Saturday its shareholders should approve all eight nominees for its board of directors after an advisory service recommended ...

AOL Inc, waging a proxy fight with activist hedge fund Starboard Value, said on Saturday its shareholders should approve all eight nominees for its board of directors after an advisory service recommended ...

Activist investor Jeff Smith, who runs hedge fund Starboard Value, wants to to make a change to Olive Garden's famous unlimited breadsticks and salad. Smith's fund owns an 8.8% in the restaurant group's stock.

BOSTON (Reuters) - AOL Inc shareholders vote on Thursday on whether to hold course on the one-time Internet giant's strategy to gradually become an ad-driven media destination or to shake up the company in line with an activist investor's demands. Six months into a battle between existing management and Starboard Value, shareholders will decide whether to keep AOL's existing eight-member board of directors or take on up to three Starboard-backed nominees that the hedge fund says will push for better returns for shareholders. ...

(Reuters) - AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong's compensation declined to $3.2 million in 2011 from some $15.3 million in the prior year, according to a regulatory filing. The 41-year-old former Google executive did not receive any stock rewards or options in 2011 and received a base salary of $1 million, which remained unchanged from 2010. The proxy filing also urged shareholders not to vote for the activist hedge fund Starboard Value's slate of board nominees. Starboard, which spun off from Ramius LLC in March 2011, launched a campaign late last year to shake up AOL.

TORONTO — Sherritt International Corp. won a convincing victory in its proxy battle with George Armoyan on Tuesday, but the activist investor insists he is not selling his shares and going away.
Mr. Armoyan earned a round of applause at Sherritt’s annual meeting in Toronto after stating that the company has good potential and is making progress in realizing shareholder value. It was a subdued speech by his standards that cast aside the bad blood from the proxy fight.